The staff are diverse and extremely kind; everyone is student-focused, which is hugely important at a University (you'd be surprised how many universities are NOT student focused). UNC also does a lot to make sure that staff are appreciated and comfortable.

Cons

Communication between departments, particularly between IT and other departments, has a tendency to be a bit unreliable and inefficient.

Management. Chairman Monfort has no Idea what an institution of higher education needs to run properly.

Advice to Management

Listen to the amazing, highly intelligent people you have at the University and many if not all of the problems there would go away. So many decisions were just handed down without asking for any input or look for any repercussions

I have been working at University of Northern Colorado full-time (More than 5 years)

Pros

The best part about being a full-time employee here is you can take 9 credits a year free. You can work with your supervisor on when you can take classes (on your own time). You can therefore earn a degree while working, or just take classes for personal/professional development.

I also love that you can buy affordable membership to the very good Campus Recreation Center.

Cons

The only downside I can think of is your salary and benefits are not negotiable. It is all based on the Colorado legislature each year.

The management, despite wanting to squeeze you for every hour of labor you have in your body, will work with your academic schedule. If you don't come back to school, you can't be employed there. Most student supervisors are promoted from within and will have your back when it comes to dealing with senior management or customers being jerks.

Cons

-They could just as easily feed the employees for free-Only being payed on the 1st and 15th of the month-Severely unmotivated, deliberately negligent coworkers-Upper management recommendations run contrary to safety and/or customer satisfaction- No breaks

Given their payment structure and the mercurial nature of the finance office, you may randomly not be paid. This means you may go as long as 4 weeks without a check. No breaks on shift means that you will be tired, and that if you work there for more than a year, you will probably end up being a burnout employee who will ride the enthusiasm of the new employees as an excuse to not do your job. I only worked there about 4 months and towards the end of it didn't want to be there anymore and held a number of my coworkers in contempt. I should also mention that I sort of got promoted against my will. Moved from regular employee to dish lead which means more responsibilities and having to wrangle cats in a frequently understaffed dishroom at no additional pay.

Advice to Management

Weekly pay, going 4 weeks without pay due to 1 error meant that outside of my shifts I was literally eating ramen to survive. Perform regular maintenance on the dish equipment, it is poorly maintained, malfunctions all the time, and someone is going to get hurt. Give staff breaks! There wouldn't be nearly as many burnouts if your management style didn't waste the talents of otherwise motivated and competent employees.

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